Highest-paid stars on TV
Here’s how much the highest-paid stars on TV actually make By Jethro Nededog From Business Insider robert de niro Getty How much is Hollywood shelling out to get the biggest stars to move to TV? In this age of wall-to-wall…
New stock exchange fights unfair online trading
By Jon Fingas From engadget IEX slows down every transaction to prevent shady internet traders from getting the upper hand. Some (such as The Big Short author Michael Lewis) see high-frequency, algorithm-based stock trading as a serious threat to the…
US: Police get dead man’s finger 3D-printed to unlock his phone
By David Lumb From engadget Michigan State University professor Anil Jain’s work focuses on how to make biometric signifiers like facial recognition as difficult to hack into as possible. But when police approached him to break into someone’s phone, they…
Scientists made an online calculator that tells you your ‘fitness age,’ and you can try it right now
By Lydia Ramsey From Business Insider Aging is an inevitable fact of life. But if you exercise pretty frequently and eat right, then you might be a lot younger than you think — at least as far as something called…
First drone pilot jailed for flying contraband into UK prisons
By Nick Summers From engadget In a first for the UK, a drone pilot has been jailed for flying illegal substances into prisons. Daniel Kelly was sentenced to 14 months in jail after using a quadcopter to deliver “spice,” a psychoactive…
ExoMars
ExoMars is speeding toward the red planet By Timothy J. Seppala From engadget But it’ll be at least seven months before the surface analysis missions begin. In 2013 the European and Russian folks behind ExoMars announced they’d launch a rocket…
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Elmo teaches kids in Caribbean
Elmo Teaches Kids in Caribbean, Latin America About Zika From NBC New York Channel 4 The Sesame Street character is featured in two 30-second videos Sesame Street has joined forces with the Pan American Health Organization to teach kids how…
Why some firms limit how much you can buy
By Jamie Robertson Business reporter, BBC News When Lego originally decided not to sell the Chinese artist Ai Weiwei bricks with which to make a political statement, it really thought it was doing the right thing. Its ethical policy states that…
Armed bandits rob 300 tourists on Venezuela beach
From Caribbean News Now CARACAS, Venezuela — Just days after Venezuela’s tourism minister announced a plan to attract more tourists to the country, a group of seven armed bandits robbed some 300 people relaxing on a Caribbean beach in eastern…
To deter inversions, overhaul corporate taxes
From Daily Word Individual taxpayers who think rates are too high can’t just stay in the USA and send their payments to another country, one where they have relatives, that offers lower rates. But corporations can and, increasingly, they do….
